Race and the Question of Palestine - 9781503642133

Stanford University Press

Race and the Question of PalestineAuthor(s): Lana Tatour, Ronit Lentin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503642133, 978-1503642133\nSynopsis\nThis book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestinelike other imperial and settler colonial projectscannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question of Palestine explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a classificatory system.\n\n Offering a wide-ranging set of essays by historians, legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, literary scholars, and race critical theorists, this collection illuminates how race should be understood in terms of its political work, and not as an identity category interchangeable with ethnicity, culture, or nationalism. Essays build on a long-standing tradition of theorir